"It's difficult to come up with a good metric" doesn't imply "we should use a known-bad metric". I'm kind of baffled that "lines of code" seems to have come ba

"It's difficult to come up with a good metric" doesn't imply "we should use a known-bad metric". I'm kind of baffled that "lines of code" seems to have come back; by the 1980s people were beginning to figure out that it didn't make any sense.